The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP Quality Center over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 77 48 21
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -27
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 18 48 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.300% 2.819% 5.281%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.24% 42.48% 55.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 30
Average daily rate £314 £280 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.05% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £335 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £337 £308 £328
% change year-on-year
+9.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+0.77% +11.20%
All Systems Management
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
147 113 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 10.61% 6.635% 9.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 60 48
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £387 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 9
Average hourly rate £15.25 - £23.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 - £15.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 - £29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+25.71% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
Yorkshire

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

West Yorkshire HP Quality Center Jobs Demand Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP Quality Center across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Yorkshire HP Quality Center Daily Rate Histogram

HP Quality Center
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire HP Quality Center Hourly Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP Quality Center within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Halifax +9 8 £298 +2.58%
Leeds -9 6 £350 +55.55% 2
HP Quality Center
Yorkshire

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing HP Quality Center also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HP Quality Center.

1 22 (55.00%) Banking
2 20 (50.00%) Finance
3 18 (45.00%) ISEB
3 18 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (35.00%) Software Testing
5 12 (30.00%) Test Scripting
6 11 (27.50%) Retail
6 11 (27.50%) ISTQB
6 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (22.50%) Retail Banking
7 9 (22.50%) MS Excel
7 9 (22.50%) Test Management
8 8 (20.00%) SQL
9 7 (17.50%) HP
9 7 (17.50%) Test Strategy
10 6 (15.00%) Integration Testing
10 6 (15.00%) QA
10 6 (15.00%) .NET
10 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
11 5 (12.50%) XML
11 5 (12.50%) UNIX
11 5 (12.50%) HTML
11 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
11 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
12 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
12 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
12 4 (10.00%) FATCA
12 4 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
12 4 (10.00%) Web Services
12 4 (10.00%) Firewall

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing HP Quality Center also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited HP Quality Center. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
1 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (12.50%) HTML
2 5 (12.50%) XML
3 4 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (2.500%) XML Schema
4 1 (2.500%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.500%) Dojo
4 1 (2.500%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (2.500%) REST
4 1 (2.500%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.500%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (7.500%) MS Project
4 1 (2.500%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.500%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.500%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.500%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.500%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.000%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (2.500%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (2.500%) JMeter
3 1 (2.500%) JIRA
3 1 (2.500%) Selenium
General
1 22 (55.00%) Banking
2 20 (50.00%) Finance
3 11 (27.50%) Retail
4 9 (22.50%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.000%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.500%) Law
6 1 (2.500%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.500%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Analyst
2 23 (57.50%) Test Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Tester
3 5 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 4 (10.00%) Test Manager
5 3 (7.500%) Defect Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Coordinator
6 1 (2.500%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Testing Consultant
6 1 (2.500%) Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Consultant
6 1 (2.500%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.500%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.500%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.500%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) Mathematics
1 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
1 1 (2.500%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) UNIX
2 3 (7.500%) Windows
3 2 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (35.00%) Software Testing
3 12 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (22.50%) Test Management
6 7 (17.50%) Test Strategy
7 6 (15.00%) Integration Testing
8 3 (7.500%) Project Management
9 2 (5.000%) Manual Testing
9 2 (5.000%) Migration
9 2 (5.000%) Wealth Management
10 1 (2.500%) Performance Testing
10 1 (2.500%) Dimensional Modelling
10 1 (2.500%) Web Testing
10 1 (2.500%) Change Management
10 1 (2.500%) MVC
10 1 (2.500%) E-Commerce
10 1 (2.500%) ETL
10 1 (2.500%) TDD
10 1 (2.500%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) ISEB
2 11 (27.50%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.500%) Degree
4 1 (2.500%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) FATCA
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) HP
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.000%) SAP
3 2 (5.000%) IBM
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle
4 1 (2.500%) Business Objects
4 1 (2.500%) Informatica
4 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.500%) VMware